A device for making toasted sandwiches over an open fire, consisting of two hinged metal plates on a long handle.
every household in Australia had a jaffle iron in those days
Example sentencesExamples
- Buy an old fashioned round jaffle iron in the op shop (or a brand-new cast iron one from a camping store).
- Preheat the jaffle iron.
- I've burnt myself about three more times on my jaffle iron.
- The clam-shell shape you get from cooking it in a jaffle iron leaves more room for tasty fillings.
- The jaffle iron was traditionally used in Australian campfire cooking to toast sandwiches over an open flame.
- Jaffles are also a fun outdoor food, using a camping jaffle iron (or pie iron as it used to be called).
- Heat up the toastie maker (or the jaffle iron).
- Put the food in the middle of the bread and place the whole thing between the hot plates of a jaffle iron.
- Place the sandwich in the jaffle iron and close gently so as not to break the egg.
- It does help to be actually familiar with a kitchen that consists of more than a microwave and a jaffle iron.